Cheryl and Griffith Day, the married team behind the highly successful Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia have returned with their second book, Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love.
Made with Love has a little bit of something for everyone — sweet and savory recipes and a few crafting projects. Artisan has graciously shared a few recipes with us as well as the beautiful photographs by Angie Mosier from the book. Look for those links and photos at the end of the post. I have plans for those biscuits this week.
As I paged through the book, my sticky tag notes got quite a work out. I have tags on Eggnog French Toast, Mexican Spice Cake with Chocolate Glaze, Ginny’s Chocolate Chip Cake with Classic Chocolate Buttercream (Andrew’s pick), Strawberry Buttermilk Cake (another Andrew pick), Lemon Pudding Cakes, Orange Buttermilk Pie, Pimento Cheese Crackers, Janie Q’s Lemon cake with Lemon Meringue Buttercream, Alabama Lane Cake (a moist cake filled with a whiskey custard, coconut, dried fruit and pecans), Buttermilk Brown Sugar Cheesecake with Sorghum-Caramel Pecans (absolutely beautiful dessert), Chive Parmigiano-Reggiano Popovers, Lemon Buttermilk Fudge, Green Tomato Marmalade, Sweet Potato Comeback Sauce and Bee Sting Honey. Truthfully, I wanted to put stickers on almost every recipe. I can’t wait to try their extra fluffy pie crust as well as their flaky chocolate crust. With recipes like this, it’s little wonder their bakery is thriving.
Reading this book made me revisit their first book The Back in the Day Bakery Cookbook and all the tags I have on those pages — White Bean Soup with Bacon, Rustic Cheddar Pecan Rounds, Bacon Jam Empanadas, Pancetta-Fontina Bread Pudding, Plum Custard, Bourbon Bread Pudding and Southern Corn Cakes. I did make their brown sugar tomato bacon jam when I first bought this book and it was delicious – I gave some to friends and they raved as well. I used it on sandwiches and grilled cheese – yum.
GIVEAWAY: Artisan Books is giving away one copy of Made with Love to one of my readers. Please leave a comment on this post telling me what your favorite baked treat is. US addresses only. A random winner will be chosen on April 13th. Good luck. Random Number Generator picked #47 May Watson you are the lucky winner!
Please remember to check out my other posts for giveaways. I have two additional giveaways right now as well as an Instant Pot review and discount code.
Special thanks to Artisan for sharing several recipes from the book Old Fashion Biscuits, Caramel Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting and Salted Caramel Sauce.
“Excerpted from Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2015. Photographs by Angie Mosier.”
I have two favorites, Hummingbird Cake and Texas Sheet Cake. Nice review, Jenny.
Another well written article Jenny, I made the star brownies with my Andrew on the weekend, loved them, now due to your artcl, going to pull the first book out again. You keep writing and we will keep cooking!
I would love this book! My favorite baked treat is Blondies.
I would love this cookbook! Hummingbird Cake looks awesome!
My favorite is homemade shortbread cookies.
My favorite baked treat is always cookies!
That chocolate chip cake sounds really yummie!
I can’t get enough biscuits!!
Oatmeal raisin cookies.
i have no baking cookbooks! I’d love this!
Key Lime Pie
Just one? I’ll go with the broad answer of “coffee cakes,” then. Maybe. Or cookies. No. Coffee cake. I’ll stick with that.
Just the cover makes it look like a wonderful cookbook!
Chocolate cake
My favorite baked desserts changes all the time, but usually it involves chocolate or caramel 🙂
I’m limited to one?!?!?! It’s a tough choice…Key Lime Pie, cheese Danish, cookies of every incarnation, sweet breads, cake, and biscuits. Guess if I had to pick one, it would be my mother’s biscuits. She isn’t here anymore and never wrote anything down, so that is something else I’ll never taste again.
i am crazy about key lime pie, chocolate tart and anything my mom ever baked…her homemade caramel cake was delicious! Favorite cookies would have to be icebox cookies with lime zest and rolled in turbinado sugar. Guess I can’t pick a favorite!
Sure would love to have this book and it looks like I would love their first book, too….
I would love the Salted Caramel Cake – anything which combines salt with caramel has got to be good!
I love most baked goods but I find cookies the hardest to resist especially my mother in laws Peanutbutter Oatmeal cookies!
coconut cake
Lemon Tart and Chocolate Cake and coconut cake too.
Been making tx.sheet cake and hummingbird cake for about 20 years. I guess they are family favorites I learned during my life in the south.Would love the new book!
Brownies!
Would love to have a new cookbook. Favorite baked food from my childhood was pineapple upside down cake and cinnamon rolls.
Love sour cream pound cake. Would love this book!
This book makes me think of my Grandma, which makes me long for her Applesauce cake, or her berry cobbler. I have both recipes but still feel hers tasted better. Thanks for hosting this giveaway!
Pound Cake with berries on the side.
This is HARD! Pick only ONE??? Arrrrrggggghhhh…Creme Brûlée
Hard choice I live so much. Shortbread, chocolate chip cookies and …….
Lemon Tartlets & Italian Cream Cake!!!!
Thank you.
My favorite would have to be fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies. Followed by brownies. My favorite brownie is the drunk blondies from their first book – so cravable!
Today, my favorite is brownies. Tomorrow … ya never know.
On the sweet side…I am partial to cookies & scones. For savory…I’ve never met a biscuit or bread I didn’t love.
I’m a sucker for any kind of cake….just can’t turn it down!
Big fat chocolate chip cookies slightly warm……
Banana cream pie!
Coffee Cake is one of my all time favorites. Thank you for giving the opportunity to win it!
It’s not easy to pick a favorite but anything made w/pumpkin would be at the top of my list.
My daughter has their first cookbook and loves baking from it. If I won I’d pass this one one to her and maybe she’b bake me some more treats. We love the doughnut muffins from the first book. One of my favorite baked treats is brownies.
German Chocolate Cake. I loved their 1st cookbook and looking forward to this one.
Sugar Cream Pie. Yummy!!
Cheesecake
Any cake with buttercream frosting!
Any cake!
I love to bake! This looks great!
Nice review Jenny! Can’t wait to look into these books. Oh my…how to select a favorite baked goodie!! Luv so many…perhaps, in the end, a great scone, jam and cream wins the day.
May Watson – Random Number Generator picked #47!!!
Love to bake and this sounds like a great book to have.
I don’t have many baking cookbooks, and this sounds awesome. The lemon buttermilk fudge sounds intriguing!
My favorite baked goodie has to be lemon bars. The more lemon the better.
i love banana bread / banana cake!
All time favorite is chocolate croissants
Chocolate chip cookies!
My hubby is slipping. I had this on my Amazon wish list and DID NOT get it for my birthday! I’d love to own it! They just look like a happy couple don’ t they? Thanks for the chance Jenny!
I love making scones and more savory types of desserts. I loved some of the titles you presented! Can’t wait to take a look.
Chocolate buttermilk cake with white buttercream frosting.
i know it’s boring, but I love chocolate chip cookies (only homemade).
Favorite baked treat…hmmm…you mean per category, like my favorite pie, cookie, cake LOL. I do admit I’m partial to plain ole peanut butter cookies.
Favorite Baked Category is: The beautiful Baking Powder Biscuit! When I was very small, my mother made these and put them on top of a beef and vegetable stew. Always in a 9×13 pan because there were 8 of us. One night dad was late for supper and he got cold supper and he ate it (this was 1955ish) but he told everyone my mom made the hardest hockey pucks in the land! Every since that time, I have loved them more and more and everyone’s recipe that comes out, I have to try and see if they taste as good as Mom’s!
I would be so thrilled to win this cookbook – I have the first one and love it! My favorite baked good always includes chocolate…a fudgy brownie or over-the-top cookie or fluffy cake with lots of homemade frosting.
If I had to choose my fave baked treat it would be a chocolate chip malt cookie using the Pioneer Woman’s recipe. I’ve only used a handful of her recipes but the chocolate chip malt cookie is one of my fave baked treats.
chocolate chip cookies
Despite the chocolate Jones I live with, my really, truly favorite dessert is Rhubarb Crisp ala mode.
My all-time favorite would have to be the Baked NYC brownie with toasted chopped hazelnuts and chocolate ganache!
One of my favorite things to bake is Banana Pecan Breakfast Cake.
My favorite baked treat has always been my mom’s rhubarb pie that she got out of the Settlement House cookbook.
Thank you for offering this giveaway! I love to cook, but baking is my favorite over all. But only one homemade baked good?… impossible! But one OF my favorites is a good scratch layer cake.
My favorite treats are savory, I love to make small meatloaves or quiches or other versions of their large, family selves for an occasional treat.
any kind of cakes
I love a warm brownie with ice cream!
Chocolate Chip Cookies are my favorite now. When I was little, it s the Black & White Cookie and Kichel (a Jewish bow tie pastry).
chocolate cake!
Love peach, blueberry and strawberry cobbler.
Green tomato marmalade hopefully it is like my husbands grandfathers since that recipe was lost
Favs: Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies still warm from the oven and my mom’s bear claws. So decadent! 🙂
I will never turn down a slice of simple, buttery poundcake.
I’m addicted to making Bundt cakes!
I love cookies the best
Anything chocolate. Or lemon. Or vanilla. I love brownies and blondies.
Favorite baked good…. Hm. Honestly, it’s probably Chocolate Chip Cookies or Cinnamon Rolls. I love them all, but I’m not a HUGE pastry person, and I love the classic comfort foods in this kind of weather (which is snowing).
Chocolate chip cookies with walnuts!
a simple scone!